Program
Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking
February 20-21, 2009 Berkeley, California
Brought to you by The Center for Race & Gender (UC Berkeley), Students & Artists
Fighting to End Human Slavery (Northern CA), and The
End Internet Trafficking Coalition (USA)
As the internet has become more and more a part of the everyday in the U.S.
and the global north, questions have arisen: How has the internet used as a
tool for violence, for the trafficking and sexual exploitation of people? How
has it used as a tool for social change to counter violence? In 2008 the End
Internet Trafficking Coalition formed to address the increasing usages of services
on the web to exploit people through labor and sex violence. In an effort to
further the conversations that began with a national call through emails to
collaborate, the coalition recorded an online presentation on the issue. February
20-21, 2009, in a conference meeting titled, "Global Disconnects: The
Internet & Human Trafficking" the coalition and collaborators will
be meeting at UC Berkeley to address the complexities of human trafficking
and the technoscapes of the web, as well as the prospects for countering human
trafficking through theory and practice.
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
6PM – 10PM
Gaia Arts
2120 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
(Near Downtown Berkeley BART)
Computers Are A Girl's Best Friend a solo performance
by Praba Pilar
The Myth of Ten Thousand Things by Dylan Bolles, Sasha Hom and
Edward Schocker.
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
9:30AM - 4:30PM
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall (8th Floor), UC Berkeley, Directions: http://169.229.159.233/LipmanMap.html
Registration 9:30AM - 10AM
10AM - 10:45AM Opening Panel "What is the human in human trafficking?
Speakers: Annie Fukushima (Ethnic Studies and DEWGS, UCB), Matthew Dorozenski
(End Internet Trafficking Coalition), Laura J. Lederer (Vice President for
Policy and Planning Global Centurion)
Moderator: Dalida Maria Benfield, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley
11AM - 12:00PM Conceptualizing the "Girl": The politics of child
trafficking
Speakers: Kathy Maskell (love146), Nola Brantley (Misssey), Glenda Hope (SafeHouse),
Praba Pilar (Performing Artist)
Moderator: Leece Lee, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
12:00PM - 1PM Beyond the boundaries of a Nation-State: Global Implications
Speakers: Andrea Powell (FAIR Fund, Inc.), Jung-Sook Choi (Anthropology,
PhD Student, UCD), Judith Mirkinson (Gabriela Network)
Moderator: Alma Granado, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
1PM - 2PM Configuring the Local in the Global: Behind Closed Doors of the
State and the Family
Speakers: Alexis Taylor Litos (The Barnaba Institute), Beth Bloom (Artist),
Tina Kim (Asian Women’s Shelter), Somanjana C. Bhattacharya (Love146)
Moderator: Gabriela Erandi Rico, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
2PM - 4:30PM Closing Panel: Tactical Strategies: Beyond the Internet as Violence
Linda Criddle (Internet Safety Expert), Melissa Farley (Prostitution Research & Education),
Marissa Ugarte (Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition), Norma Ramos (Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women)
Moderator: Annie Fukushima
Thank you to the Sponsors: Berkeley
Center for New Media (UC Berkeley), Institute for the Study of Social
Change, Gender
& Women's Studies and the Beatrice Bain Research Group (UC
Berkeley),Love146, Prostitution
Research & Education, FAIR Fund,
Inc., The
Barnaba Institute, Students & Artists
Fighting to End Human Slavery,
Gabriela Network, Lyric at Berkeley, My
Definicion, and Sisters of the Holy Family, Fremont, CA.
Publicity Sponsors:
Amnesty International, Chab Dai Coalition,
Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law
Now
available, flash Presentation of the August 5, 2008 Presentation
PDF Version of the presentation available
here: PDF of August 5th
Presentation
Want to get
involved? Email: Info@eitcoalition.org
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End
Internet Trafficking Coalition:
Alexis
Taylor Litos, Executive Director,`The Barnaba Institute
Andrea Powell, Executive Director and Co-Founder FAIR Fund
Annie Fukushima, Executive Director SAFEHS
Kathy Maskell, US Advocacy Director Love146
Somanjana C. Bhattacharya, Public Relations & Communications
Division Love146
Matthew R. Dorozenski, Advisory Board Member, The Barnaba Institute
The End Internet
Trafficking Coalition Institutional Membership:
Barnaba Institute: www.barnabainstitute.org
FAIR Fund: www.fairfund.org
Love146: www.love146.org
SAFEHS: www.safehs.com
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